A recent study has good news about brief mindfulness training for our patients.
A few weeks later, even a single manualized training resulted in improvements in depression and anxiety.
Health care professionals can and should leverage basic mindfulness training for our patients' well-being.Today's avalanche of information requires some judicious digging and sifting. Especially in health care, the sheer mass of new studies and reviews can be overwhelming; we try our best to select a pile, dig through the rough, and hopefully discover some buried treasure. Yet, sometimes, the jewel is just sitting there in plain sight.
Metrics measured one and two weeks after the intervention focused primarily on a self-report of degree of loneliness. Results showed"meaningful reductions in perceived, but not loneliness," even with the compassion component.
To me, though, while the needle in this haystack that was focused on did not move, the authors didn't really celebrate enough the diamond in the rough: Even a single guided meditation session showed, again,"meaningful reductions in perceived stress, anxiety, and depression" at two weeks. This is not years of sitting, nor even the well-regarded MBSR protocol, which is 8+ weeks in most cases. The specific.
It may be that there's no cure for loneliness besides actual human connection. Yet, adaptation to loneliness and other states of stress, pandemic or not, can be entrained with some prudent, time-efficient strategies in working with our patients on mindfulness.At any moment, someone’s aggravating behavior or our own bad luck can set us off on an emotional spiral that threatens to derail our entire day.
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